List of terms used to describe the intelligence of an agent
Eliezer has lots of terms to describe how intelligent/powerful/whatever an agent is. These were mostly introduced publicly in his Arbital writings, and most of them have not caught on or been explained very well.
- Relevant
- Pivotal (is this only for actions, or also for agents, as in "agent who can perform a pivotal action"?)
- sufficiently optimized
- highly optimized
- cognitively powerful
- powerful (is this a shorthand for cognitively powerful?)
- relevant powerful [1] = "cognitively powerful enough to be relevant to existential outcomes"
- sufficiently advanced
- advanced
